[Rhodes22-list] Is Yankee Clipper fixed?

[Bob Keller]

Ed,
Yes, the forestay is fixed, but it wasn't easy.

Rummy and I worked on it for about four hours on a Friday night and got it 
installed before we noticed a slight problem.  Before I get into that, the 
installation was made more difficult because I did not send the lower furler 
drum to West Marine Rigging when I ordered the new forestay.  Why not?  Just 
didn't catch that small detail.  If you notice on the GB furler, the wire 
goes through the drum and then the aircraft fitting is attached.  I had the 
new forestay with the fitting already attached, and there was no way to get 
the wire through the drum!  We considered drilling the hole in the drum much 
larger, but thank goodness we didn't do that.  So, instead, we used my handy 
tree saw to cut the drum from the outside all the way to the center hole.  
Then we could, with great difficulty, bend the drum and force the wire 
through the cut into the center hole.  Not easy nor is it the desired 
method, but it worked, or so we thought...

When we installed the new forestay into the furling tube, we found a rope 
inside the tube, the entire length of the tube with some plastic ties 
attached.  This is in place to reduce the noise of the stay against the 
tube.  Anyone else ever seen this?  Made reinstalling the stay a royal pain, 
so I hope it was worth it.

After we raised the mast and Rummy left, I went back down to the boat and 
thought I would try out the new genoa sheets and see how the furler worked 
with the new forestay.  To my horror, it didn't work.  The new aircraft 
fitting from West Marine was just slightly smaller than the old one so that 
the drum went all the way down to where the fitting attached to the deck.  
Since it was lower, the furling line did not wrap on the drum, but above the 
drum.  In addition, the sail was too low on the deck.  Next morning, Rummy 
called and awoke me with the solution (even before I had told him there was 
a problem).  He constructed a (polycarbonate?) square bushing that fastened 
around the forestay at the fitting that prevents the drum from going any 
lower.  We installed it and it works perfectly, and even turns with the drum 
so minimizes wear and tear.

He will be manufacturing these and selling them to those on the list who 
have to replace their forestays.  Remember to send the lower drum to the 
rigger when having the new forestay made.  I will take a picture of the 
bushing and post it as soon as I can.
Bob K
s/v Yankee Clipper







>From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Is Yankee Clipper fixed?
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:52:47 -0400
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>Bob,
>	Have you got the forestay fixed?
>                                           Ed K
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